At the core of the Supreme Court’s finding is the now well-established notion that to keep a death row convict inordinately waiting for his or her turn to enter the gallows is an act of torture — in this case, an act of state-sanctioned torture
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Acountry that retains the death penalty needs constantly to fine-tune its clemency jurisprudence as the second best option. The Supreme Court’s latest verdict on death row convicts is a thoughtful...
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Human rights organisations have welcomed Tuesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court that the death sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment because of delay on the government’s part in deciding th...
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